Spring 2024 Visual Arts GU4600 section 001

Performance Art

Call Number 14227
Day & Time
Location
R 10:00am-4:00pm
101 Prentis Hall at 632 W 125th St
Points 3
Grading Mode Standard
Approvals Required None
Instructor Shireen Abrishamian
Type STUDIO
Method of Instruction In-Person
Course Description

What happens to a body stilled in space, when it takes a shape and holds it? How does its relationship to public space change? How is its transformation attenuated when the body is in formation with other bodies, a breathing still life of people and props? This performance art course will use the question of a body’s stillness as a platform to create interdisciplinary projects that exist between dance, sculpture, collaborative movement, and performance art. Through core readings and case study presentations, we will discuss unique possibilities of representation and challenges this form enables, and the prominent role it has been taking within the visual arts in recent years. Students will engage with a variety of aesthetic strategies and formal techniques such as movement workshops, sensory exercises, video, wearable sculptures, collaboration, scores, and group meditation. Studio work will focus on concrete intersections between the body and the object, and case studies chosen to encourage students to think of movement as a form of resistance, and to consider the political implication of collaborative work that unfolds over time. Performativity in the context of this class is widely defined, and no prior experience is required. 

Web Site Vergil
Department Visual Arts
Enrollment 5 students (16 max) as of 5:05PM Sunday, December 8, 2024
Subject Visual Arts
Number GU4600
Section 001
Division School of the Arts
Open To Schools of the Arts, Barnard College, Columbia College, Engineering:Undergraduate, Global Programs, General Studies, Professional Studies
Fee $125 Visual Arts Course
Note First Class Attendance is mandatory.
Section key 20241VIAR4600R001